F# Weekly #20, 2014

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Functional Works site is alive.
• Summer of F# in Paris! Early bird registration for Paris ’14 is open.
• CloudSharper 0.9.10.2 is released: Mono support, VS-compatible solutions, NuGet packages and more!
• Visual F# accepted pull requests ‘make possible to set breakpoint inside quotation‘ and ‘performance improvement for seq.windowed‘.
• F# support is now included by default in Xamarin Studio, no external add-ins are required.
• Ross McKinlay presented a transactional ETL procedure from Excel to SQL server, using only the SqlProvider!
• New F# User Groups map was presented.
• Check FsBlog (Blog aware, static site generation using F#) if you missed it.
• Try FsLab Notebook right now and share you thoughts.
• Santa Monica F# User Group was presented.
• Andre Pemmelaar showed F# repo popularity by region.
• FSharp.Compiler.Service 0.0.48 is released.
• New Visual F# PowerTools feature was presented: Record stub generation.
• FsUno (Event sourcing implementation sample in F#) was presented.
• Jb Evain shared a sample of F# Active Patterns for Roslyn’s C#’ AST.

Video/Presentations

• Tomáš Petříček: Data science with F#.
• “F#’s Type Providers: The future of meta-programming in .NET” by Robert Pickering.
• “F# Data: Accessing WorldBank data” by Tomas Petricek.
• “F# Data: Making structured data first class citizens” by Tomas Petricek

Blogs

• Jamie Dixon posted “Association Rule Learning Via F# (Part 1)“.
• Evelina Gabasova blogged “Who’s the most central? F# network on Twitter“.
• Tomas Petricek wrote about “Stateful computations in F# with update monads“.
• James Conway posted “Will F# ever be a first class citizen?“.
• Mauricio Scheffer wrote about “Mapping objects to JSON with Fleece“.
• Adam Granicz blogged “Program F# with CloudSharper everywhere“.
• Ross McKinlay posted “CRUD Operations and Experimental ODBC support in the SQLProvider“.
• Richard Dalton wrote “Why I Study Functional Programming“.
• Mike Harris blogged “Property Based Testing with FsCheck“.
• Sacha Barber wrote about:
  • F#27 : Asynchronous Workflows
  • F# 28 : Integrating With Task Parallel Library

That’s all for now.  Have a great week.

Previous F# Weekly edition – #19